[TriLUG] an actual Linux question

[James Olin Oden]

On 5/23/07, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> This might not be the proper forum for this, but...
>
>
> I have a web server running Debian stable.  That means that up until a
> few weeks ago, I was running "sarge" (aka 3.1).  Then, when "etch" (aka
> 4.0) was released, I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade" to upgrade.  In the
> process, I lost libapache2-mod-auth-mysql.
>
>  From what I can tell, there was some problem getting the mysql
> authentication module to compile properly, the deadline came, and this
> package was left out of the etch release.  Apparently, a lot of other
> people are having the same problem, but I have not heard of a solution
> or work-around [1].
>
You should be able to get the source for the original package and buil
against the latest apache.  Apache in etch may have changed, but there
probably are newer sources that build against the new apache.  This is
a general answer comming from an rpm guy would normally say "go get
the old or newer srpm for this and rebuild", but even though your in
Debian land, its likely to hold true.

Cheers...james